Cadence Weapon photo by Dustin Rabin. Courtesy of Polaris Music Prize
This week’s edition of the Polaris People blog Aaron does over at the Polaris Music Prize website is now live. The Feb. 10 post featured news about K’naan, Cadence Weapon, The Besnard Lakes and a bunch more.
You can read the story by clicking over to the Polaris Music Prize site here.
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Patrick Watson photo by Dustin Rabin. Property of Polaris Music Prize
Aaron has started contributing to the Polaris Music Prize’s blog section, namely keeping track of what past Short List nominees have been up to week-to-week and writing a column about it.
His first post, for the week of Feb. 3 featured news about Feist, Tegan And Sara, Caribou and a bunch more.
You can read the story by clicking over to the Polaris Music Prize site here.
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Courtney Love of Hole
It was tough being a music fan when “alternative” broke. Suddenly everyone thought The Smiths were their band and Soundgarden were considered as good as Black Sabbath. Worse, if you brought your hot new Nirvana Nevermind cassettes to house parties you’d get them stolen. Twice. Fuck you anonymous Nevermind cassette stealers.
Anyway, it was with that wealth of knowledge and experience that I wrote the story Where Are They Now? 20 Years After Alternative Broke for Spinner. In said story you can find helpful updates on the likes of L7, NIN, Blur, Pearl Jam and all those other faves of Gen Xers.
To read the story, click here.
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The members of Echo Echo
UPDATE: Because Spinner is RIP, we’ve unearthed this story here.
There’s a supergroup called Echo Echo featuring members of The Shins, The Decemberists, and Sleater-Kinney that kinda exists, but only in the fake world of the indie comedy show Portlandia.
Aaron was interviewing The Shins’ main main James Mercer about his band’s forthcoming album Port Of Morrow and he talked about being part of the fake Portlandia band.
You can read what Mercer said by heading over to Spinner and clicking here.
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Pearl Jam and Arcade Fire
Everything old is new again. Or something like that. And everything in music has been done before.
And if you’ve got a big enough record collection, you can actually trace the genelogical lines between artists a couple decades remove. Which is exactly what Aaron did in an article called Alt-Rock Then And Now: Connecting The Classes Of 1992 And 2012.
The story is exactly what it sounds like. Massive Attack were compared to The Weeknd, Pearl Jam to Arcade Fire, Jesus And Mary Chain to Crocodiles, etc., etc.
To read the story over at Spinner, click here.
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I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 